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@ all above quoting me. Yes I was being obtuse; yes I do have a sketchy grasp of the U.S. war of independence and history in general; French officers do wear brown trousers; and I was at the end of a REALLY crappy day at work with my sarcasm on 11.
If I caused offense the I apologise most sicerely.

Oh and just so people know the french Military does "kick ass" these days. I would now rate it as more powerful than the British armed forces as they have things like planes for thier aircraft carriers (thank you so much Mr. Cameron)

Sonophos wrote:@ all above quoting me. Yes I was being obtuse; yes I do have a sketchy grasp of the U.S. war of independence and history in general; French officers do wear brown trousers; and I was at the end of a REALLY crappy day at work with my sarcasm on 11.
If I caused offense the I apologise most sicerely.

If it makes you feel better i got a chuckle out of it...

I think understanding french jokes beyond "haha the french surrender lots" is a very British trait.

Razorspirit wrote:No offense to anyone who has said disease I am about to reference to. Anyone in the US remember those diabetes commercials, I think we found our new spokeswoman

"My name is honey boo boo child. I'm 6 years old and I have diabetes."

I'm Diabetic and that would just make people call me Honey boo boo.

They already do honeybooboochild.

I hate this thread for constantly reminding me of that video.

I thought it was the Italians we made fun of for being quick to run away.

Hence jokes about Italian tanks having six gears - one forward and five in reverse. Or "What's the World's shortest book? - The book of Italian War Heroes".

Howard A Treesong wrote:I thought it was the Italians we made fun of for being quick to run away.

Hence jokes about Italian tanks having six gears - one forward and five in reverse. Or "What's the World's shortest book? - The book of Italian War Heroes".

Never heard those, I've heard Italians support whoever is winning but normally the French are portrayed as cowardly.

Maybe we should start a thread on British culture and humour for our transatlantic cousins.

Howard A Treesong wrote:I thought it was the Italians we made fun of for being quick to run away.

Hence jokes about Italian tanks having six gears - one forward and five in reverse. Or "What's the World's shortest book? - The book of Italian War Heroes".

The Italians are quick to run away, the French are quicker to surrender... at least that's what my culturally ingrained stereotypes tell me. I'm sure they're very professional lads in reality...


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Sonophos wrote:Maybe we should start a thread on British culture and humour for our transatlantic cousins.

I actually have a PDF on 'Understanding the British' not that i need it (Being British and all) bgut it's interesting to see an outsider's view...
This has gotten horribly OT...

Sonophos wrote:@ all above quoting me. Yes I was being obtuse; yes I do have a sketchy grasp of the U.S. war of independence and history in general; French officers do wear brown trousers; and I was at the end of a REALLY crappy day at work with my sarcasm on 11.
If I caused offense the I apologise most sicerely.

Oh and just so people know the french Military does "kick ass" these days. I would now rate it as more powerful than the British armed forces as they have things like planes for thier aircraft carriers (thank you so much Mr. Cameron)

The French are fething useless. I went on exercise in Cadiz with US, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch soldiers. The French were disgusting and never ever washed, the Spanish and the Italians were all chain smokers and the Dutch were playing volleyball and sitting in deck chairs all week. The only French soldier who wasn't a clueless gakker was an Australian in the foreign legion who came over and asked why we were the only ones who appeared do any exercise and not have blazing bonfires roaring on an evening. He wanted to know what regiment we were from because he was impressed at our prowess. Each country also did a CQB demonstration, and ours was the only one that drew rapturous applause from everyone watching.

It was only an exercise (and a gak one at that) but when other nations are watching we always tried extra hard to do everything perfectly and aggressively. The fact that only the British and the Americans didn't seem to be lacking in any personal pride speaks volumes in my mind. Pride is a fighting man's whip, If you dont give a feth that foreign troops think of you, then you dont give a feth full stop.

Although, we were the only actual combat veterans there, I'm sure the Italian spec ops guys aren't as bad as the chain smoking Italian mess-tin repair unit that I had the misfortune to meet.

But seriously, I never met an Italian that didn't smoke.. feth knows why.

Words fail me, and Dr Farnsworth has already been invoked.

I would never disparage our troops but our leaders seem intent on cutting off our military genitalia. It's a shame we don't have the old Lord Mountbatten. He would of slapped them around until they got it right.

I have always found it strange that the French Foreign Legion is their elite fighting force.


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Dr Farnsworth?

Tim the Biovore wrote:

Well, I believe Professor Farnsworth says it best;

Medium of Death wrote:Did not watch past the intro. kitchen roll throwing (what the feth is that about?)

Child Pageants are weird, creepy and all very wrong.

Did that judge just rub his crotch at the end?
That is messed up...in a satirical way.

Yeeahhh child pagents are weird, why do people hold them?

SlaveToDorkness wrote:Yes, I must be. don't tell Cannerus.

I already knew.

I'm actually not as creeped out by this as most of you are. The girl getting dosed on caffeine and sugar I have a definite issue with, but her horrible contortions of the english language are no worse than much of what I hear in gaming stores. Father aside, they seem like a happy family.

The phrase 'honey-booboo child' has now entered my personal lexicon. Me and Matty kept saying it to each other during our hungover 40k session on Sunday morning.

I feel that should be a song on your next album, it must feature a duet with matty.

corpsesarefun wrote:I feel that should be a song on your next album, it must feature a duet with matty.

Won't be another album for quite a while, but we're recording a new EP at the moment. Should be out in a couple of months. There'll be a track from it posted on youtube on the 1st of Feb.

I was slightly joking Alby

corpsesarefun wrote:I was slightly joking Alby

...and I was slightly whoring my band. Problem?

See, I'm reading a lot of pitching about a new EP, but what I'm not getting enough of is Honey Boo Boo Child.

Albatross, I think we all know what needs to be done.

*notes the dates on his calender*

As for the song, I'm thinking a parody of voodoo child?

Sonophos wrote:@ all above quoting me. Yes I was being obtuse; yes I do have a sketchy grasp of the U.S. war of independence and history in general; French officers do wear brown trousers; and I was at the end of a REALLY crappy day at work with my sarcasm on 11.
If I caused offense the I apologise most sicerely.

Oh and just so people know the french Military does "kick ass" these days. I would now rate it as more powerful than the British armed forces as they have things like planes for thier aircraft carriers (thank you so much Mr. Cameron)

If it makes you feel any better I'm rarely offended on Dakka, and defiantly not by anything you said on this thread. People should tale pride in thier nation and go out of thier way to make all others look inferior. Patriotism is a good thing. I also don't expect Brits to have a firm grasp on our war for Independance, it's part of our nations creation semi-myth; but at least the war prepared Britain for later exercises abroad which laid the foundations for the Pax Britannica.
To my knowledge French officers have never actually worn brown pants, although making broad statements from the Napoleonic Grande Arme to present is bound to mean someone somewhere did. The Republican Guard is the only French unit I know of that has a real dress uniform as we would recognize it, and their officer wear blue. It's still a good joke, but in context it would have been far more likely for the Brits to gak their pants at the approach of the indomitable French army. Luckily for you the King found the right Mick for the job.
The current French are frigging useless donkey caves.

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:

SlaveToDorkness wrote:Yes, I must be. don't tell Cannerus.

I already knew.

I'm actually not as creeped out by this as most of you are. The girl getting dosed on caffeine and sugar I have a definite issue with, but her horrible contortions of the english language are no worse than much of what I hear in gaming stores. Father aside, they seem like a happy family.

Lies. That father is seriously reconsidering his life choices in every scene, and probably contemplating suicide everytime he looks into his wife's beady little pig eyes.

Made it 47 seconds into the video. Almost blacked out.


Anyway, back to the off-topic discussion of unwashed French soldiers or what have you.

You should skip to the last 20 seconds...

Fafnir wrote:See, I'm reading a lot of pitching about a new EP, but what I'm not getting enough of is Honey Boo Boo Child.

Albatross, I think we all know what needs to be done.

I will fit those words into a song somehow. Promise.

When you do it, use cardboard tubes as one of the instruments.

I wrote a honey Boo Boo Child song in thier own language:

Verse:
Incoherant vowel sounds,
Incoherant vowel sounds,
Incoherant vowel sounds,
Incoherant vowel sounds,
Incoherant vowel sounds,
Incoherant vowel sounds,

Chorus:
No-one makes you wild,
like Honey Boo Boo Child.
Incoherant vowel sounds,
Incoherant vowel sounds,
Incoherant vowel sounds,
No-one makes you wild,
like Honey Boo Boo Child.

Verse:
Incoherant vowel sounds,
Incoherant vowel sounds,
Incoherant vowel sounds,
Incoherant vowel sounds,
Incoherant vowel sounds,
Incoherant vowel sounds,

Chorus:
No-one makes you wild,
like Honey Boo Boo Child.
Incoherant vowel sounds,
Incoherant vowel sounds,
Incoherant vowel sounds,
No-one makes you wild,
like Honey Boo Boo Child.

Verse:
Incoherant vowel sounds,
Incoherant vowel sounds,
Incoherant vowel sounds,
Incoherant vowel sounds,
Incoherant vowel sounds,
Incoherant vowel sounds,

Chorus:
No-one makes you wild,
like Honey Boo Boo Child.
Incoherant vowel sounds,
Incoherant vowel sounds,
Incoherant vowel sounds,
No-one makes you wild,
like Honey Boo Boo Child.
repeat to fade (because you can't think of anything better)...



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On a different note:

@Mattyrm The Italians all smoke because if you switch sides fast enough you don't have to do any running about.

Albatross wrote:Agree on all points. And the mother is fat, it's just that this particular fact is not what makes her such a grotesque individual. She's a bad person and a terrible parent, but that's not because of her weight. One can be a good person and be overweight, so it seems odd that certain posters would attack this weirdo for her size when she possesses a wealth of much worse character traits.

It's almost as if, because she is so vile, it's open season on the insults. It recalls the paedophile thread a while back - paedophiles are scum, so people feel justified in saying that they deserve to be raped and tortured. Rape and torture are wrong, it doesn't matter who they happen to - not even just because they are terrible crimes to inflict upon a human being, but also because of how it reflects upon those people who think that there are circumstances under which those crimes are acceptable. It's ugly, man. I think the same is true of mocking people for their weight. It displays a lack of poise and class, no matter how deserving one thinks the target is.

Let's have it right, calling people names based on their physical appearance is childish.

Ahh my bad, but you see, I do think she is beyond all of the possible insults that are worse than "fat", including a few additional ones via profanity.

However, I didnt think i should use profanity, and so calling her fat was the easiest route :3